How is morgana mid lane, these days?

I've played some 1200+ games on Morg since November and quite frankly she is the weakest she has been right now since I started playing her. Depending on the matchup she can absolutely win lane and deal gobs of damage, but carrying with her has been getting harder and harder with continued buffs to naturally tanky physical damage dealers and the popularity of AA- reliant junglers. Add that to the nerf to her early laning phase and she isn't nearly as strong as one would hope. The good news is she still is a very powerful mage! Just not as powerful as she was last year.

Plus everyone just builds Banshee's if she is carrying and suddenly she is much harder to play with.

I often feel like I am playing Jungle Support for her when I take mid now, as I usually end up getting a lot of assists for the jungler.

Oddly I started playing her as a Ruinglaive jungler this week and I've been enjoying that immensly and dealing 60k+ damage from the jungle. Won 4/7 that way, but of the losses I had two games with lvl 1 AFKs, and one game with a 6-17 jinx who was feeding for reasons. And we did well in the 4v5s even.

But to answer your question, she can be very strong mid lane. Very easy to pick up, and easy to do well with. She is almost no risk high reward because even if you lose lane you still offer a lot of utility with her, and if they pick a counter you can just afk farm safely and wait for teamfights. She has high sustain and can harass with impunity thanks to her passive, but the tradeoff is early mana problems, so learning to manage her mana is necessary.

Gutted more than her support version. Take a look at the nerfs:

W: This spell became useless against tanks once it stopped shredding mr but it was still acceptable in lane against squishies. The real issue is when she recently had a rank 1 to 4 W base damage nerf and since Morgana maxes W first in sololane it means your lvl 1 to lv 9 is weaker, much weaker.

Riot said this was "to stop her pushing power", what they ignore is:

• They nerfed her damage to champions as well.
• They nerfed her sustain in lane from her passive since it was mainly coming from her W.

E: Her shield being much weaker and the last spell maxed in lane means it pops on one or if you are lucky two AP spells. This is until you get a decent amount of AP.

R: If I remember right she lost 50 base damage x 2, so if you take into account the ulti's AP scaling (70%) that's basically having 35 AP less nearly a blasting wand so a 850 Gold difference.

Sure she's still good in some matchups but that can be said for every champion. She's mainly good against Yasuo, TF and bad Leblancs. She used to counter Annie hard, however Annie while getting base damage nerfs like Morg also received AP ratios increases which is why she's so strong lately.

Scary. All the stuns.

So what she does is stun you, drop the little aoe damage thing then auto you until you run away with 200 hp. Or you jump on her she does the same combo but throws in an ultimate and zhonyas.

She is fine mid lane. Her Q and E make her very safe, even against assassins. Her W sucks at level 1, but once you get a couple points in it, you can farm quite well. You just have to use her as a counterpick mainly. Probably the best thing about her is that she rarely feeds and can push lane good enough to keep the other mid from roaming.

It's shit. A good counter pick to certain champions but her damage is so low it doesn't matter. Just look up her champion.gg stats.

waveclear is not instant which screws her up against opponents that have it, AD champions are a bitch, hyper mobile champions are a bitch, champions with lower CDs are a bitch, and in teamfights her burst isn't as impressive as most other mids. part of the reason she became a viable support is that she no longer was viable in most situations mid.

She gets the job done. Her root can shutdown hypermobile midlaners , especially bullshit LeBlanc and thank goodness, her black shield stops everything LB tries to throw at her and if LB eats a single Q she's done, not to mention her soul chains doesn't give a shit about her passive and will also reveal her too.

She's still strong in certain matchups. Extreemly hard to gank a good morgana. But really easy to gank for.